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[A] Open sourced R3.1 on New Year 2025

A project log for Coaxial8or [gd0144]

Full-colour FFF? Multi-materials with unparalleled interlayer bond strength? Abrasives without abrasion?

kelvinakelvinA 01/01/2025 at 17:030 Comments

It may have taken 4 hours, but I've open-sourced the Coaxial8or r3.1 heatblock so that I could participate in PCBWay's 7th Design Contest. 

R3.1 is essentially R3 with all the post-print alterations, but since I haven't reprinted, it's not the 4th revision. 

To get things ready to go IPO, I just did a few small tweaks today, such as 

I also tried my hand at the "configuration" feature that Fusion has had for a few months now:

Some of the limitations I found was that you can't edit in place, nor do things like change checkboxes (Eg. "Keep Tools" in a combine feature). But now, I can quickly toggle visibility of certain components:
I've also exported the .step of the hotend holder, partially because the odds that I need to continue revising it are not insignificant. Additionally, it's tangled in the rest of the "Coaxial Hotend" file and trying to "Save a copy" gave me an exploded file:
I've also rendered the latest heatblock and holder:
It kinda reminds me of AI-generated images by how you can see the start but not the end of the cartridge wires.

I read the Open-Source Hardware FAQ and confirmed my choice to use the CERN hardware license. I'm not sure if it matters much compared to Creative Commons in the grand scheme of things.

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